Lenten baking

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Many people cannot imagine the absence of the aroma of fresh pastries during fasting, when you have to deny yourself the pleasure of bothering with the dough, because most recipes contain products prohibited during this period: eggs, butter, milk. But in this case, acceptable options for replacing animal products have been found, so lean pastries will be no less fragrant, tasty and he althy.

So one egg can be replaced with crushed flax seeds (one glass) mixed with water (three spoons). This mixture can be used to make pies and cookies. Milk is replaced with soy or crushed coconut pulp, diluted with water. Instead of butter, use prune puree (half a cup of fruit and one third of a cup of water).

Thus, lean pastries do not necessarily lose their taste, because you can always adapt any recipe for a lean table.

1. Pie "Monastic"

Ingredients: one glassstrong warm tea, seven tablespoons of flour, three tablespoons of vegetable oil, one hundred grams of sugar, three tablespoons of jam, one spoon of baking powder, nuts, spices and dried fruits to taste.

The dough is kneaded from all the listed components, spread on a baking sheet pre-lined with parchment paper, and baked for twenty minutes in a well-heated oven.

2. Lenten pastry with candied fruits

Ingredients: one and a half glasses of flour, half a liter of orange juice, five hundred grams of a mixture of various dried fruits (dried apricots, prunes, nuts, raisins, etc.), two tablespoons of baking powder.

Dried fruits are poured with juice and left for twelve hours, after which baking powder, flour are added and mixed well, placed on a greased baking sheet and baked for twenty-five minutes in a well-heated oven.

3. Greek Pie

Ingredients: one glass of vegetable oil (olive), one and a half glasses of sugar, one and a half glasses of walnuts (chopped), one glass of raisins, four glasses of flour, two glasses of water, half a glass of liquor, cognac or wine, one spoonful of cinnamon and cloves, the zest of one lemon, and three tablespoons of baking powder.

This pastry is made from egg-free dough, but thanks to nuts and dried fruits, it turns out to be satisfying.

So, flour, cloves, cinnamon and baking powder are mixed, oil is added and mixed. Then water, sugar, cognac, nuts, raisins and zest are added to these products.

It should be said that the raisins must first be poured over with boiling water and left forTen minutes. Next, the dough is laid out in a mold and baked for one hour. Ready lean pastries should cool down (fifteen minutes), then they are cut into portions, sprinkled with nuts.

4. Onion spinners

Ingredients: five onions, one and a half tablespoons of dry yeast, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, one glass of water.

Cut the onion into rings, s alt and pepper, mix well. Yeast is dissolved in s alted water, oil is added and a soft dough is kneaded. It is rolled up in the form of sausages and cut into pieces. Each such piece is rolled out, smeared with vegetable oil, placed in the middle of the onion filling and twisted into a tube, forming horseshoes. The product is smeared with strong tea and baked in the oven until cooked.

Thus, various pastries can be prepared during fasting, it may not work out of shortcrust pastry, because it does not contain butter, but there are a lot of recipes that are suitable for such cases.